David Ferguson (Australian politician)


David Alexander Ferguson was an Australian politician.
He was born at Naria near Wellington to innkeeper Alexander Ferguson and Elizabeth Inglis. He was educated at Bathurst and Redfern, and became a pastoralist, first managing his father's properties and then inheriting them in 1869. On 8 June 1868 he married Elizabeth Phillips, with whom he had nine children; a second marriage, on 12 March 1890 to Jane Horn, produced no children. Ferguson was a Wellington alderman from 1879, and served as mayor in 1881. In 1882 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Wellington. A Protectionist, he served until his death in 1891.